The latest recording from the Oz VAN meetings is now up.  Mike Minutillo (@wolfbyte) talks about Connascence and what it looks like in the .NET world.

Richard Banks presenting on strategies for influencing others, how they works and how they can affect you.

Thoughts and experiences from JP BoodHoo's bootcamp.

Viddler had a few problems which caused issues when uploading these recordings.  Apologies for the delays but it's all sorted now.

The following 2 recordings are:

June 22 - Ideals vs Reality.

What happens when the ideals we want to use in a software project bump up against the harsh reality of the commercial constraints placed on our projects?  Listen to this discussion and if you've got something to add, let us know on the mailing list!

July 6 - Linq and Events

Paul Batum shows how you can extend Linq to make the handling of events in windows apps so much nicer.  Well worth a viewing.

We’re currently trying to gauge the level of interest in having an Australian Alt.Net conference on the day before Tech.Ed AU.

Putting a conference together (even an open spaces one) takes quite a bit of effort so before we go down that path please help us out by responding to the poll on the sydney.ozalt.net site (it's in the right hand column).

Hot off the presses comes the latest "Recorded LIVE!" session of the Australian Virtual Alt.Net meeting.  This time Richard Banks (@rbanks54) shows what he uses on his Visual Studio setup to help make himself more productive and efficient when coding.

In a recent Oz Virtual Alt.Net meeting (OzVAN) we talked about BDD, and coming out of it Michael Minutillo (@wolfbyte) went and got himself some inspiration to try and emulate ucumber for doing BDD in a C# world.  A few weeks have since pass by and lo and behold! NGourd is born.

Michael has a post about it on his blog which I recommend you read, or you can simply head over to the project site to have a look.

Michael also did a walkthrough of the current prototype at the most recent OzVAN meeting. You can see the video here.

If you're interested in making BDD a little easier for C# development why don't you go check it out.  And feel free to contribute something - I'm sure Michael would love some help.

Here are the videos from the most recent Australian Virtual Alt.Net meeting.

The first is a session on Powershell presented by Jason Stangroome (@jstangroome) and the second is on NGourd, a BDD framework for C#, presented by Michael Minutillo (@wolfbyte).

It took a while, but the recording from our most recent Virtual Alt.Net meeting is now available here.

The topic for the evening was database deployments and covered tools such as Visual Studio database edition (aka DataDude) and Ruby based options

The recording of the OzVAN from Monday March 30 is now online (and embedded below).

This week we talked about BDD, from an introduction and talk through of the concept onto a worked example and finally on to some of the BDD tooling that is available out there.

The video resolution should be a lot better this week as well, however if you have problems please leave a message on the mailing list so we can try and improve it for next time.